TOKEN2049 2019
2019-03-13..2019-03-14
Hong Kong, China
who it's for
crypto hedge fund managers, protocol engineers, crypto exchange operators, custody and infrastructure engineers, compliance and regulatory teams, venture capital investors, product leads at crypto startups
topics
smart contract platform design; security token issuance standards; institutional crypto custody solutions; fiat-backed stablecoin implementations; layer-2 scalability SDKs; cross-chain bridge architectures; privacy protocol integrations (MimbleWimble); exchange microstructure and arbitrage; on-chain audit and volume metrics; tokenized real-world assets; ecosystem fund treasury strategies; tokenized remittance rails
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Market Outlook for Crypto Hedge Funds | Alex Sunnarborg, Michael Bucella, Tiantian Kullander, Lewis Fellas, Robert Dykes, Jen Wieczner | 30m |
Panel reports that 2018’s winners are arbitrage and quant strategies while discretionary directional bets suffer through repeated ~80% drawdowns; liquidity and… | ||
| The Push Towards a Billion Crypto Users | Henri Arslanian, Bill Barhydt, Galia Benartzi, Vanessa Grellet, Maxine Ryan, Kris Marszalek | 32m |
Panel argues roadmap from 50 million wallets toward one billion users by building frictionless rails: an upcoming synthetic equity product that hides Bitcoin… | ||
| Building Smart Contract Platforms | Da Hongfei, Xinshu Dong, Piers Ridyard, Yanislav Malahov, Zhuling Chen | 32m |
Five protocols compare concrete choices: NEO uses a dBFT-style consensus and a language-independent NeoVM that compiles C#, Java, Go and others; Zilliqa… | ||
| Security Tokens: The Road To Trillions? | Antony Lewis, Steven Nerayoff, Alexander Tkachenko, Rafael Cosman, Vijay Chetty | 31m |
Panel argues security tokens are real but nascent: stablecoins like true USD and Pax serve as plumbing today, exchanges and custody systems exist but trading… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Charlie Lee, Peter McCormack | 27m |
Litecoin aims to add MimbleWimble privacy via extension blocks, after evaluating confidential transactions that were initially ~20× larger but recently reduced… | ||
| Institutional Crypto Custody Solutions | Kiran Nagaraj, Pascal Gauthier, Josh Schwartz, Alexandre Kech, Henry Chong | 34m |
Panelists lay out concrete solutions and metrics: Ledger Nano S — 1.5M units in 165 countries and chip‑and‑pin OS ported to HSMs with a D'Amato partnership… | ||
| Behind The Scenes: Insights From The Secondary Market | Wayne Trench, Cristian Gil, Darius Sit, Steven Pang, Charles Yang | 27m |
Panelists describe a shift from retail hype to institution-focused plumbing: firms build options OTC clearing and standardized derivatives plumbing, auditors… | ||
| The Decentralized Future: Interoperability And Scalability | Jun Li, Matthew Spoke, Jack Lu, Qingkai Liang, Rong Chen, Josh Choi | 25m |
Panel claims layer‑2 moves most traffic off‑chain and Celer’s SDK already pushes tens of thousands TPS on Ethereum by settling only disputes to mainnet. Celer… | ||
| The Regulatory Landscape | Larry Cermak, Gabor Gurbacs, Benedicte Nolens, Sandra Wu, Richard Rosenblum | 50m |
The panel lays out concrete bottlenecks: custody remains unresolved for banks, price feeds come from 150 trading venues and MVIS/Nasdaq are three exchanges… | ||
| The Asian Tigers: Are They Still Roaring? | Rae Deng, Vincent Zhou, Herbie Fu, Kong Ho Chua | 35m |
Panelists argue the concrete shifts: Hong Kong and Singapore push security token and stablecoin infrastructure while mainland China drives protocol R&D and… | ||
| Crypto Analysts: When Moon? | Tone Vays, Murad Mahmudov, Arjun Balaji | 31m |
Claims: worst case price is $1,300, most likely bottom settles in the low to mid 2000s with a final dip before a bull begins in 2020 Q1–Q2; best-case target in… | ||
| Stablecoins: The Separation Of Money And State? | Rich Teo, Rafael Cosman, Shaun Djie, Vishal Gupta, Larry Cermak | 34m |
Panelists report concrete metrics and products: Paxos offers a regulated 1:1 USD stablecoin, USDC sits at about $240M market cap, TrueUSD at $200M, and DGX… | ||
| What Will Web 3.0 Look Like? | Tomer Afek, Max Kordek, Bonnie Cheung, Roderik van der Graf, Martin Koppelman | 36m |
Panel argues attention, not capital, is the scarce resource and lists concrete moves toward Web 3.0: 15–25 DeFi teams building composable finance on Ethereum… | ||
| The War Chests of Ecosystem Funds | Tony Gu, Brian Mehler, Manmeet Singh, Tiffany Li, Shane Kehoe | 26m |
Dedicated ecosystem funds deploy capital into gaming/NFTs and digital content plus financial services, and they back projects with hands-on dev teams, SDK… | ||
| Gatekeepers: Crypto Exchanges | Kayvon Pirestani, Ted Lin, Chris Lee, Jasper Lee, Karen Chen, Alex Wearn | 33m |
Panelists compare concrete builds and numbers: a new Binance chain DEX running on testnet aims for one second block and one confirmation final and a mainnet… | ||
| Navigating Crypto as a Venture Fund | Lasse Clausen, Dovey Wan, Jehan Chu, Cindy Leow | 38m |
Panel lays out concrete shifts: many VCs move to equity because LP rules and clearer revenue models make valuation easier, yet token bets still returned 70%… | ||
| Why Privacy Matters | Phil Chen, Alexander Zaidelson, Reuben Yap, Simon Harman | 35m |
Panel explains concrete privacy builds: Beam implements MimbleWimble for a scalable confidential cryptocurrency that requires both parties to interact and… | ||
| The Bitcoin Standard | Saifedean Ammous | 21m |
Argues Bitcoin is unique because supply is fixed at 21 million cap and new issuance stays constant at ~1,800 new BTC/day, so demand raises security rather than… | ||
| The Promise of Smart Economy | Da Hongfei | 22m |
Neo explains concrete design choices: a delegated BFT consensus for fast finality and identity-linked validators, a dual-token model (NEO for governance, GAS… | ||
| Building The Trust Layer Of The Internet What Does It Take | Mance Harmon | 18m |
Hedera Hashgraph claims a public ledger that hits tens of thousands of tx/s now and >100,000 tx/s when optimized, with seconds of consensus latency and 100%… | ||
| The Last Blockchain Standing | Justin Sun | 18m |
Claims rapid network growth: 3 million transactions per day, 2.1 million accounts, 6,000 smart contracts and 17 million contract triggers in four months, and… | ||
| The Path Ahead | Charles [Music] hoskinson | 14m |
Argument that decentralised tech is now a practical, global experiment with concrete wins and measurable scale: a research program publishes 40+ papers… | ||
| When Code Meets Money | Bill Barhydt | 17m |
Company builds crypto collateralized contracts on Bitcoin (now adding native Ether) that mint synthetic assets giving phone-held exposure to fiat, equities and… | ||
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